You know, one of the nicest things for me to realize, is that I don't have to 'cultivate' my moorish heritage, or seek it out.  I've already been living it my whole life.  The beauty is that I can just relax into 'being me.' The...

i've been writing so much about my mother and her family and very little about my father.  well, until recently, i thought i knew all there was to know about my father's family.  but now there's been yet another major familial wake-up call.  my father's family were 'danish jews.' ...

As counter-intuitive as it may seem with all the myriad news and RSS sources available on the Internet, apparently you STILL have to keep a print subscription to The Cincinnati Enquirer for fear of missing something. Case in point - there was an insert in yesterday's (Sunday's) Enquirer called "Rise...

These are excerpts from "Transgressions in Race and Place" by Darlene Wilson and Patricia D. Beaver, from a Women's Studies collection of essays entitled Neither Separate Nor Equal : "A word portrait of the Melungeon or mountain 'native granny' may be gleaned from legends and document...

I find it interesting that the Delaware Moors now seem to refer to themselves as moor-indians.  I still don't quite understand what the moorish connection is, but in a certain sense, it doesn't seem as important to me, as it did, to find out.  At last, I understand what the problem was, an...

The Teaching Company sells a 24-lecture intro to genetics course, Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real World Applications, taught by Dr. David Sadava of The Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges. After watching a preview, I can say that it’s not much more interesting th...

Recently, there have been a slew of articles decrying genealogy DNA tests as scams. Blaine at The Genetic Genealogist has covered the controversy in depth. And today, I’ve invited author Jon Entine back to Eye on DNA to share his thoughts on genetic genealogy. As you can see, it is possible to...

I loved this leather lampshade when I was a little girl.  At that time, it sat atop a rounded orange glass base and had a plain little ball on top rather than this finial.  If my theory is correct, and my great-grandmother was one of the 'Delaware Moors' then perhaps this shade was made in...